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Languaging Without Languages
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Drawing on usage-based theory, neurocognition, and complex systems, Languaging Beyond Languages elaborates an elegant model accommodating accumulated insights into human language even as it frees l...
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14 June 2018

Drawing on usage-based theory, neurocognition, and complex systems, Languaging Beyond Languages elaborates an elegant model accommodating accumulated insights into human language even as it frees linguistics from its two-thousand-year-old, ideological attachment to reified grammatical systems. Idiolects are redefined as continually emergent collections of context specific, probabilistic memories entrenched as a result of domain-general cognitive processes that create and consolidate linguistic experience. Also continually emergent, conventionalization and vernacularization operate across individuals producing the illusion of shared grammatical systems. Conventionalization results from the emergence of parallel expectations for the use of linguistic elements organized into syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships. In parallel, vernacularization indexes linguistic forms to sociocultural identities and stances. Evidence implying entrenchment and conventionalization is provided in asymmetrical frequency distributions.
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Pages: 166
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
Publication Date:
14 June 2018
ISBN: 9789004364585
Format: Hardcover
Robin Sabino, Ph.D. Univeristy of Pennsylvania (1990), is a Professor of English at Auburn University. She has published on linguistic variation, contact and change, including Language Contact in the Danish West Indies: Giving Jack his Jacket (Brill, 2012).